On Friday, March 23, 2012 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, EJ wrote:
On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:03:04 AM UTC-4, Pat wrote:@Cathal, Truth. It won't be people in the DIY movement it will be
bioterrorist.
For the record, that was the first thing I said to Carl when he called to interview me :-)
We talked for about an hour and he kept trying to make me say that the DIY community had the capability to make the mutated H5N1 now. Then he tried to get me to say that kids could do it accidentally. Then he asked me what about five or 10 years down the road, could we do it then?
He interviewed the FBI agent who interfaces with DIYbio and is friendly with Genspace. He had nothing but positive things to say about our community and not a word of that made it into the article. Instead they quoted a 'biosecurity expert' from academia who knows nothing about us.
Eri Gentry and I drafted a response in the form of a letter to the editor. It was never published.
This post is going in the FAQ.
Irresponsible journalists should not be tolerated by the public (i.e. non-objective, sensationalist-seeking).
I'd like to place the response in the FAQ too, cc; it to me or post the link when it's up somewhere permanent.
## Jonathan Cline
## jcline@ieee.org
## Mobile: +1-805-617-0223
########################
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/diybio/-/p2BPsN3r65UJ.
To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en.
0 comments:
Post a Comment